Representation of the concept «otbasy/family» in the Kazakh and English political discourse

Abstract

The article talks about how the concept “otbasy/family” is represented in the Kazakh and English political discourse. Representative feature of the language as one of the most functional characteristics of human includes the ability to see the world and accordingly it can represent the representation of this world in its semantic and conceptual spheres. All, what is significant in the world and in the reality surrounding us cannot be but verbalized by the means of human language. In other words, it means that every pattern of language goes through the process of language nomination and find its adequate linguistic representation in different forms. The materials of the study were political speeches of the American politicians such as Donald Trump, Joe Biden and inaugural speech of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym Jomart Tokayev. We took political discourse in order to show figurative meaning and language modification of the concept of "otbasy/family". Conceptual (conceptual) analysis, lexical-semantic and comparison methods were used during the research.

As a result of such a study, it became possible, on the basis of comparative studies of linguistic units, to determine the ethnic specificity of the mentality of these peoples, to reflect the linguistic features and linguistic and cultural nature, the specificity of consciousness and thinking of each nation.

Key words: concept, “отбасы/family” concept, political discourse, family values, family members, figurative meaning